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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?
(a) One is their own written laws, the other is laws of the sovereign.
(b) One is by traditions, and the second is by innovation.
(c) One is by revolution, and the other is by civil disobedience.
(d) One is by a constitution and the other is by police power.

2. When does Hobbes suggest it is not logical to follow the Golden Rule?
(a) when no one else is following it
(b) in times of war
(c) when there are no other people around
(d) during a natural disaster

3. Why does Hobbes say that people attribute the unknown to ghosts, spirits, or other things that can never exist?
(a) They have had experience with seances.
(b) They believe in astrology.
(c) They have experienced the supernatural.
(d) They do not know how to think logically.

4. What does Hobbes accept when peace is impossible?
(a) surrender
(b) hiding
(c) war
(d) diplomacy

5. How does Hobbes identify political systems?
(a) thise which are regulated by majority consensus
(b) those which are only governed by an assembly
(c) those which are entirely run by negotiation
(d) those which are granted status by the sovereign

6. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?
(a) breathing, blood flow, and other bodily functions
(b) thinking, eating, and reading
(c) writing, feeling, and sleeping
(d) planning, acting, and rejoicing

7. What is the sovereign's right in legal matters?
(a) the right to confiscate property when two or more subjects cannot get along
(b) the right to deny legal process to anyone he shooces
(c) the right to make decisions basked on his mood
(d) the right to judge all controversies between his people

8. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?
(a) when something is transferred or traded for future payment
(b) when any promise is made
(c) when something is sold or traded
(d) when money changes hands

9. Which two forms of government need not worry about succession?
(a) neither a communist nor an empire
(b) neither a democracy nor an aristocracy
(c) neither a monarchy nor an anarchy
(d) neither a republic nor a dictatorship

10. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?
(a) They will destroy the commonwealth.
(b) They have no voice.
(c) They will be beheaded.
(d) They voluntarily entered into the covenant.

11. Why does Hobbes contend that no sovereign can do wrong to anyone under his authority?
(a) The sovereign is led by God.
(b) They entered into the contract to create the sovereign.
(c) There is divine Right of Kings.
(d) The sovereign is exempt from making mistakes.

12. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?
(a) He can be interrupted.
(b) He can be attacked.
(c) He can be misquoted.
(d) He can be more forceful.

13. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?
(a) Like seeing a carriage and a house and imagining a train
(b) Like seeing a dog and a cat and imagining a kangaroo
(c) Like seeing a man and a horse and imagining a centaur
(d) Like seeing an appl and an orange and imagining a melon

14. What can the commonwealth do to check bad behavior of its citizens?
(a) Increase the quality of education.
(b) Put everyone into servitude.
(c) Provide everything for the subjects.
(d) Put power limits on subjects of the nation.

15. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?
(a) to prevent having to relinquish freedoms
(b) to allow for orderly disagreement
(c) to be like the other commonweaths around them
(d) to rid themselves of political uneasiness

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes call the blood flow of a commonwealth?

2. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?

3. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?

4. What is Hobbes' position on mothers and their children?

5. What results are there when an actor makes a contract?

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